From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V7 #2 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Sunday, January 14 2007 Volume 07 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [chakram-refugees] Old fart Xena fan ["Roach" ] Re: [chakram-refugees] Old fart Xena fan [cr ] Re: [chakram-refugees] Old fart Xena fan [Lee Daley ] [chakram-refugees] Con 2007 First night [KTL ] RE: [chakram-refugees] Con 2007 First night ["Ellie Moses" Subject: RE: [chakram-refugees] Old fart Xena fan All hail the internet! The savior of many! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-chakram-refugees@smoe.org [mailto:owner-chakram-refugees@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Lee Daley Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 7:04 PM To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Subject: [chakram-refugees] Old fart Xena fan Hi Gang Who in the infancy of this list, Season 1, could have imagined sharing something by just clicking a link? Us old farts, used to snail mail tapes to our sisters who had no access. Damn, the Internet is getting better. Leed, Warrior Jester Lee Daley leedaley@optonline.net ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:08:00 +1300 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Old fart Xena fan On Saturday 13 January 2007 16:04, Lee Daley wrote: > Hi Gang > > Who in the infancy of this list, Season 1, could have imagined > sharing something by just clicking a link? Us old farts, used to > snail mail tapes to our sisters who had no access. > > Damn, the Internet is getting better. > > Leed, Warrior Jester > > Lee Daley > leedaley@optonline.net Man, if ya ain't got broadband, that is _still_ the most practical way of sharing an ep. (Tape or DVD - DVD's cheaper on the postage :). cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:40:10 -0500 From: Lee Daley Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Old fart Xena fan Pardon Me. In the beginning when Ventor recreated the original list, we were all running on dial-up. OK a few select members had DSL, frame relay, or Goddess provide a T1, usually at risk of our jobs. Putting an ep on the web was unheard of. Remember the Xena fandom was on of the first fan-based web-based. Now the studios have their own sites. We did it ourselves! Back when there were not too many tools. Any of you old farts remember? Therer are still a semi-active posters I sent VCR tapes too And even found out how to send to internationally. Times change! At 11:08 PM 1/12/2007, you wrote: >On Saturday 13 January 2007 16:04, Lee Daley wrote: > > Hi Gang > > > > Who in the infancy of this list, Season 1, could have imagined > > sharing something by just clicking a link? Us old farts, used to > > snail mail tapes to our sisters who had no access. > > > > Damn, the Internet is getting better. > > > > Leed, Warrior Jester > > > > Lee Daley > > leedaley@optonline.net > >Man, if ya ain't got broadband, that is _still_ the most practical way of >sharing an ep. (Tape or DVD - DVD's cheaper on the postage :). > >cr >========================================================= >This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. >To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with >"unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. >Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. >========================================================= Lee Daley leedaley@optonline.net ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:15:14 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Old fart Xena fan Hi, Lee Daley wrote: > Times change! Indeed. I still have the VHS tapes a friend sent me with Seasons 1 & 2 so I could get caught up (in a single 2-day butt-numb-a-thon, ah, those were the days :). I shudder to think how long ago that was ... 10 years!! That said, people tend to forget that just two years ago, YouTube didn't exist yet (it came online in early February of '05, IIRC). BitTorrent has been around longer, but time on the Internet really is measured in nanoseconds. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:12:20 -0900 (AKST) From: KTL Subject: [chakram-refugees] Con 2007 First night Once again, for the eleventh time as the advertising reminds us, we are gathering to celebrate the Xena: Warrior Princess show. It's amazing to realize that these things have been going for eleven years. Except that many of us old-timers indeed show the passing of time and have become more old-timer than ever. Julie was watching the crowd line slowly shuffling into the hall to get their week-end bracelets and noticed that there are more of us now that are moving a bit slow, perhaps limping some and even using canes to get around. Not to worry though-we old-timers are being supplemented every year by fresh young things who are rip-roaring with excitement over their first ever con. The fresh young things who were con virgins last year are more blase now-they know people here, they know the drill, they sit on the couches and sip their morning soda (pop) with us as we sip our morning coffee. Yesterday afternoon was a melee of incoming fans. Screaming with delight at the first sight of each other again. One group I happened to be with who were exchanging pleasantries, we're just enjoying being together and the conference door opens up and a lady comes out scowling, sweeping her hands up and down in a "lower the noise" gesture and hisses to us, "There's a meeting going on in here." She gives another scowl and closes the door and I say with a laugh, "This is a Xena con honey-we just don't do quiet." Later the doors of the BIG conference room on the other side of the hall open and a whole bevy of Catholic priests and their female attendants, (you know, those women who look like Donna Reed looked in "It's A Wonderful Life" when she never got it on with Jimmy Stewart), came mincing out. I got this huge grin on my face and thought, "Oh, this is probably the best sharing of con venue we've had since the year we had the Teenage Ballet Convention." At that convention, a doctor friend of mine was along. She had a huge head cold, was working on a migraine and had self-medicated herself into a loud, just about hallucinatory high. She cackled in great delight at seeing all these twirling teenagers in tutus prancing in the lobby as the Xena fans went to and fro to the convention. In her drugged state she just found that mix of ballerinas with their frou-frou stage mommies and we tough Xena fans wildly risible. I thought we might have to do CPR on her to help her get her breath back, she was gasping and howling with laughter so much. Lots of old faces, lots of new. Brand new mother/daughter combinations where the young kid is a major Xena fan and the mom is along as driver and source of money for Xena stuff. I love those combinations. Last year we had two three generation groupings, Grandma, Mom and kid. In at least one of them, the grandmother and grandkid were the fans-the mom again was just the enabler. So the line went well, as always, my tickets are in Alaska and I am here. As always, it's never a problem and I got my wrist bracelet and con pass necklace with no problem. I said as we walked back to the hotel that night, "We're all tarted up now-and don't we look good." There's some very nice new pictures and posters-one fabulous one of Lucy from Battlestar, from the last scene of Downloaded. Rather than "Girl with a smoking gun, it's "Girl with a smirk and gun." MARVELOUS look on her face. (Lida will probably find a link online somewhere.) When we went into the bar that night, it was the usual BLAST of sound as old friends found each other and new friends were high on their first con. And it suddenly struck me-you know how the song goes, "You wanna go where everybody knows your name"? Well, this is the place. My favorite quote from today was overheard when two fans who had never met in person were talking and one said to the other, "What's that accent you have?" And the other person answered, "I don't have an accent. It just sounds like I do." Gods bless us everyone. KT ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:45:56 -0500 From: "Ellie Moses" Subject: RE: [chakram-refugees] Con 2007 First night oh lordy, she's baaaaaack and they're back. may the goddess of cons help Sharon and may Dionysos and Bhadrakhali help the poor bartenders. ;) kt, you go grrrrrl. hope you enjoyed "come to mama." i'm sure we'll get all the details. yo cr, yo LeeD. good to see your names again. md - -----Original Message----- From: owner-chakram-refugees@smoe.org [mailto:owner-chakram-refugees@smoe.org]On Behalf Of KTL Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:12 PM To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Subject: [chakram-refugees] Con 2007 First night Once again, for the eleventh time as the advertising reminds us, we are gathering to celebrate the Xena: Warrior Princess show. ========================================================= ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. 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